SUBSCRIBE!

RKNet Blog… thing

you know the drill
Loading

Posts Tagged ‘background’

Portland Travelogue Part 3: Picture Dump

By Giania • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Fnord

Hot: As a retrospective I’ve decided to dump (nearly) every picture I took. There’s a mix of travel photos, some repeat photos from previous posts, and photos of Portland. Click on the thumbnails below for the big version. And the photo on the detail page for the extra big version. Also I just remembered that [...]



Love at First Listen: The Go! Team – Bottle Rocket

By Giania • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Audio

Hot: Bottle Rocket – The Go! Team I was minding my own business when: Digging through my collection I stumbled across a compilation with a few tracks I wanted to get in my list for the day, and opted to listen to the whole thing. This sweet jam surprised me with horns that screamed 70′s [...]



Love at First Listen: Beautiful Small Machines – Counting Back to 1

By Giania • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Audio

Hot: Edited to remove imeem embed, since it only played 30 seconds. This poppy, energetic, tightly executed ditty grabbed me in the first few seconds the way few songs have in a while (since the Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal, I reckon). It’s a super catchy balance of techno precision and warm pop sensibilities, wrapped [...]



Emerging Meme: Interrupting Kanye

By Giania • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Memes

Hot: 1: Knock knock. 2. Who’s there? 1. The interrupting cow. 2. The interrupting co..1. MOO I suppose it is worth noting that there are NSFW images and links here. Yo I’m happy for your traffic, Imma let you finish this post, but boingboing had the best kanye interrupts taylor swift post of all time. [...]



Ashtanga Yoga: The Role of Asanas, and a Very Brief Background/History

By AmHm • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: Yoga

For serious practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga, asanas (postures) serve as preparation to stabilize and control the mind, which one, of many, steps along the “the path of internal purification for revealing the Universal Self.”



Widowmaker — Review on “Punisher: War Zone”

By Sketch E Whiteface • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Film

Hot: Good morning, shoppers. As usual December has rolled around which of course gives us the lovely sentimental holiday known as Christmas. And as we all know one of the many traditions that is a part of the spirit of Christmas that isn’t mass consumerism is movies. The kind that are sweet, loving, caring. the [...]



Mix and Mash Part 1: Introduction to a Colorific Exploration of Favorites

By Giania • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Guides

Hot: A while back I asked people on my Twitter friends list to DM me with the answer to a really simple question: What is your favorite color? I got some really interesting responses, and I thought to myself: “Hey self” “Yeah?” “What if we do a really neat post out of this?” “Well! That’s [...]



In This Twilight Discipline The Wretched Ruiner — Review of NIИ in Manchester, NH

By Sketch E Whiteface • Nov 10th, 2008 • Category: Audio

Hot: Good evening, it’s your friendly neighborhood cyst Sketch here bringing you an article for your Internet Arts & Leisure feed. Today we bring you a review on “Sex In The City: The Movie”… sorry, wrong drugs. Now that we’ve changed substances a proper review is in order. Last night the one man band Trent [...]



RKNet’s Weird Tales: Sleeper.

By fragmad • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: Literature

Hot: You are hiding behind a stone wall being shot at by heavily armed cultist. You have had two weeks of training to deal with situations like this. But you’re only just starting to remember this. You know you should feel angry that people are shooting at you. But you consider that they would shoot [...]



Firefox Pimps for the Everyman (like me!)

By AmHm • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Browsers

Hot: Admittedly, I’m an Internet n00b (does anyone even say that anymore?) Sure, I was chatting away with the best of ‘em on AOL in 1995, but it’s only within the last year (since I began work at an internet marketing company) that I’ve thought to embrace any browser other than Internet Explorer, any email [...]